My contract is up soon. Still thinking whether to cut Astro and channel the $$ to upgrade my internet line. I only need Astro for sports. Can I depend on live streaming for sports?

You can, but you need to buy the Stacker de Stacker. And it's expensive.

We should bombard Astro with this. We should be allowed to change Mustika with Metro. Hell, I don't watch any of the channels in Mustika.

Haha. That's why I'm putting my plans to upgrade on hold.

Has anybody disconnected their Byond set? How is the procedure? Just call in to disconnect and they will come and collect the decoder and dish?

Yours is a Byond set? I thought Byond sets belong to them and they want it back? Anyways, the blocking of FS sites is no big deal bro. Change your DNS numbers, and you can access them all again.

You are using which VPN? I've been using BolehVPN for quite a while. Stable speed and torrents can max my Streamyx line.

Well, I prefer they take back everything. With the decoder and card matching, we cannot use the decoder with any card anyways. Maybe next time if we want to reconnect, they give discount? Otherwise I will use the dish to fry stuff

Is it a cock up from Astro? Or they intentionally gave CH188 to all Byond subscribers regardless of Mustika subscription? Watching Maharaja Lawak now

Disconnected my Astro via phone already. Feels good!
If you have no more contract, you only have to return the smart card. My new housemate will upgrade his Astro account to the Superpack 1 since we can share the monthly charges. He is already a PVR user.

My housemate moved in today. He brought his Astro set with him, and since his set is PVR, we decided to keep only his account.

That is a stacker destacker. And yes, Astro PVR needs two wires to the LNB. In that case, the installer is NOT conning you. You will need it if you don't want to lay another cable. But the price maybe a bit on the high side. It should be around RM300.

It is something like this

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The red bar indicates how much of the programme is stored in the hard disk buffer.

Of all the times to install PVR, I chose the Raya festive season. Sigh. I wonder how long will they take. I called on Sunday. Last I checked yesterday, still no installer assigned.

My PVR was installed today without any fuss. Activated almost immediately. Was given a quad output LNB with the brand Sharp despite only installing one PVR. I didn't know that Sharp produces LNB. So now I have two additional unused outputs on my LNB.


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those with PVR, do you have black tape wrapped around the F connectors at the LNB? mine are not wrapped. i recall that the tape is used for waterproofing. but i called my installer and he said that it is not necessary. hmmm....

Anyone?

The PVR at my house committed suicide yesterday. While browsing the recorded programmes (at the background it was recording one channel) it suddenly freezed. The video was still playing but you cannot do anything. I could only go back to the big screen (blue byond button) but I cannot change channels. I tried on-off via the remote control, but to no avail, I still could not change channels. So lastly,as a last resort, although I know it was bad since there was a spinning hard disk inside, I switched off the power supply. Waited for a while, then turned back on. After that, I lost all PVR functionalities. No recorded programmes/cannot playback/record/pause, etc. All other functions remained, just like an ordinary Byond box. Called Astro and they will send a technician over. I wonder if they will just give a new box to me.

satellite dishes at Astro's antenna farm are humongous. it would take a serious storm to affect the signal for their sources. the chances are very very slim

Try to find a friend or a neighbour with an ori remote and try. You don't want to buy an ori remote and then find out that the problem is with the decoder